Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. A bookish only child, he spent his after-school hours in the town library.

He graduated from Emerson College in Boston and published his first book â€” Memory's Handgrenade â€” shortly after. Since 1975, Lux has been a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. Lux is also a co..